Digital painting for web or publication. Prints are available for
this image
here.
This digital
painting depicts a Mississippian Priest holding the severed head of
a captive, and a ceremonial flint mace. Many mississippian societies
seemed to have a warrior aristocracy, and may have been ruled by the
king/priests of the warrior cult. Many of the symbols in this
painting such as the whelk necklace, ceremonial mace, and the hawks
eye makeup on the severed head are associated with the "Southeastern
Ceremonial Complex" or "Southern Death Cult" as it
was previously known. |
